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its so GORGEOUSWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

maybe the zerg ARE rightWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Mr. Alien this podcast is 1000% willing to turn evidence any day of the week, please do not hurt meWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

In another intermission season, we return to the well of anthology wouldn't it be fucked up if ______Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

We look back on the show, on our methodology, and have no regrets whatsoever no sirWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

We are nearing the end of our journey and the beginning of lower decks. Boy am I happy they did not stick with this vibeWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

in which we finally avoided watching a season finale because the fan service was in another episode that timeWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

I'm sorry i couldn't resist once i thought of it. We're generally very conscientious about taking CWs seriously so let me be clear we discussed it and arrived at "weird bird / robot sex" was our best swing at concisely conveying thatWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

We actually watched the caves episode after this and it was so much betterWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

What do an overbearing aunt, a rogue nanite swarm and a rebel coming of age have in common? For one, they're in the most formulaic episodes of the season! At least there will always be the promise that the a and b plots will collide in the denuement and neutralize each other.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

I propose the following program:Lift all intellectual property law, with the exception of the right to make literal copies of a work. If you want to release a sixth game of thrones book, you can, you just can't impersonate george martin. You can make another batman film, but you can't just sell copies of existing ones out the back of your van. Stories have always been communal, often retold and revised. Our cultural stagnation is self-imposed for the benefit who don't even know half the stories they supposedly "own".Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Our intrepid podcasters return - can they tie together our haphazard collection of scifi-ish works? Honestly I think it came out pretty good?Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

in which we struggle with the age old question: Is this cool on purpose?Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Imagine you are the Dewatch Podcast:You wake up after an extensive christmas break, gasping for meaning from a story pulsating with it. You can feel the air, dry in the winter months, focing its way through your vocal chords, speaking ideas after months of emptiness. The episode length inflates in pieced-together increments, as one sentence is chained to the next, caffeine stirs groggy neurons. Your bits have seized up through disuse. You're a small thing, interpreting a large thing in medias res.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Welcome one, welcome all, to literature season! We're taking on an easy one to start with, and I think we really nailed what Ursula K Le Guin meant with this one.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Is watching all outliers a good way to get a sense of the show? Maybe, maybe not. Is it fun to podcast about? Absolutely (apart from that one).Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

On the one hand, a more ambiguous ending would have been interesting, on the other hand, it would have been a pretty wild thing to spring on parents watching...Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

The hunt for red romulan maybe? Theres something here....Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

On the one hand, if I'd ever gotten dumped this hard, I would have changed my name and moved to a different city. On the other hand, if I ever dated anyone hot enough to be cast for this show, it might derange me enough to shrug it off with a balad, so who's to say.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Slapstick timetravellers? What could go wrong!Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

This is the only season where the goofy episode wasn't the lowest rated one, and I wildcarded  it in anyway. I can't say I regret it?I switched this week and last to distance the massive downer from the holidays. I hope you have a lovely time!Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

In which Star Trek provocatively asks: Wouldn't it be nice if a military hegemon were the good guys, not because of anything they did to be structurally transparent or accountable, but because the troops on the front line just did their darn best to do the right thing (not intervene in an extremely uneven conflict)?I switched this one ahead to spare you from being hit with it right before the holidays. I'm sorry it's such a downer, but not as sorry as I hope whoever wrote this is for their entire worldview.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

I enjoyed introducing Gim to star trek this season, but this episode did begin a long streak of gim not hearing the regular intro a single time in season 3.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

i was genuinely in doubt as to whether we'd need two parts. I'll be over here wearing my dunce hat, it's fine.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

JOIN US as we toss episodes with no redeeming qualities into the same bracket as episodes that got there. Yes we are going in the same order we watched inWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Finally art asks the hard questions of our time: Is it harder to respect robots, or respect women?Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"If anything, there's not enough CO2 in the atmosphere, and that's why I had to make her (2013)." - Spike Jonze, in conversation with Consequentialist MonthlyWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

In the top 2 movies that drove Mark Zuckerberg insane. It is also my duty to inform you that there is a longer version of the dance scene that was cut down here: https://youtu.be/o9A-w11--8o.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Upon reflection, maybe the reason we keep calling Harvey Guillén's character Guillermo is because of the massive similarities between his rolesWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

I think that, as societies, we are remarkably good at adjusting to "new normals", but quite bad at reflecting on those changes, especially with so much of media getting swallowed by finance and megacorps. Now, while I would be ever so happy to live in a world where black mirror is the middle of the pack in a rich field of art wrestling with the cavalcading changes happening ever so quickly, it's certainly the most prominent and probably one of the best attempts we have. Thanks for thinking through it with us, folks.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"I've gotten better at it now, but the transition to a hit and miss format was really hard in the beginning. If you're not careful, you spend so much time making the misses that the hits suffer, too. It's a tricky balancing act for sure." - Charlton "Charlie Brooker" Brooker, appearing on the "Keep 'em wanting more" podcastWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"Eve Online? No, I can't say I know her." - Charlie Brooker, presumablyWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"Wouldn't it be crazy if the assumption that most defines your life was just like wrong?" - Charlie Brooker, speaking to Anxious Rumination MagazineWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

i'm not saying I would do the human 1.1 update but i would certainly trust the unkempt back alley programmer to do it more than i'd trust microsoftWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"[...] and in a way, she's all of us: chasing a sexy ghost without ever being quite able to catch up" - Charlie Brooker, interviewed by the Lesbian ReviewWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"But what if Rashomon was... the bad guy?" - Charlie BrookerWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

i have this pet theory that all advertising is essentially information pollution (they have to say the thing is good so it's always in bad faith) and should be banned, but that the information function of advertisment is needed, but should be replaced by review and product journalism (which should probably be funded by like giving everyone a base budget they can spend on news / reviews)Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Write in to the DewatchPod gmail address, that is the gmail address starting with DewatchPod.Also, boy, I can't believe we made it all the way, and we got to get the skeleton key for our trouble. We talk through all of it, and I think it does kind of come together. Thank you for joining us on the journey.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"Those who can remember the past are condemned to repeat it, sort of like a gif just looping over and over." - George Santaya, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, 1905Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"The rise of social media, and the fear it has produced in television executives, means that shows like Hot Shots are saturated with anxiety – not only the anxiety of the hot shots, who are often selected for their hair-trigger tempers or psychic weaknesses, but the anxiety of the producers, always looking for the next hashtag outrage, for provocations that will go viral. This anxiety, and the surrounding social situation that engenders it, takes us beyond the cool ambivalence of Warhol’s aesthetic." - Mark Fisher, 2015Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

The National Anthem: 2011Piggate (Ashcroft / Cameron): 2015The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie): 2019Charlie Brooker incepted Britain.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"Man I can't wait to see what ideas he's gonna have next!" - Someone in 2014 who is very impressed with the diversity of ideas behind Black MirrorWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Things men will do rather than go to therapy:Pretend to be a rude bearSabotage their love interests' careerFascismWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

It's interesting how this episode is quite reminiscent of a videogame in large parts considering the way it is about entertainment. It's also interesting that the arctic and the antarctic are named for their relation to bears, but the constellation. But I reckon they wouldn't have kept it if they had found bears in the antarctic but not the arctic, but maybe I'm just being optimistic.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"Every programmer will go to Hell, and for every dead person chatbot he has made, there will be appointed one who will chastise him in the Hell." - Ibn 'Abbas (who was blessed with great foresight)Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

Brooker originally pitched season 3 of BM to channel four but they changed their mind, ordering a movie instead, leading him to make an anthology episode for his anthology series. Yes, I'm writing an informative description for once because I'm not sure what joke I could make that I would want people to see before the content warnings.Write in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"We don't need a melting pot for our service, Mr. Brooker. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the themes - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate anthology." - Reed Hastings, probablyWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"OH, NO, NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!" - Nicolas CageWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

"I wish it were as easy to stop hating as it was to start." - ChakotayWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.

The architect actually recommended we hire a lesbian carpenter for the porch. All she does is pineWrite in to the DewatchPod at gmail address!Intro and Outro music by Kevin MacLeod.